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Foil 36 Use of NII Services in Particular Applications -- Society

From Overview of Web Applications and Services Certificate Course Summer 97 -- 19 June 97. by Geoffrey Fox *

1 InfoVision is "successor" to TV with any multimedia information delivered on demand( choice from infinite number of channels)
2 Community Networks will define local societies and will have significant impact on local government
3 Shopping on the Web will include multimedia digital yellow pages , Commerce, online catalogs (which is InfoVision again) as well as perhaps powerful VR interfaces where you can try out new clothes and cars
4 Collaboration (gossip as in computer forums) could be an important and dominant use but perhaps not initial major one

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